Bill Text: NY A08106 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8106 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to including a lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention program within health care and wellness education and outreach programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - substituted by s5803a [A08106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08106-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8106--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including  a  Lyme
          disease  and  tick-borne  infection  awareness  and prevention program
          within the health care and wellness education and outreach program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 207 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (m) to read as follows:
     3    (m) A Lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness  and  prevention
     4  program designed to promote the awareness and prevention methods against
     5  Lyme  disease  and tick-borne infections. Such information shall include
     6  but not be limited to guidelines and methods  of  prevention,  including
     7  the  safe  use  of recommended insect repellents, the best practices for
     8  tick removal, recommendations for the reduction of exposure to ticks and
     9  appropriate course of action once a tick is removed from the body.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11381-03-6